Urinal for invalids



J. HENRY & J. R. SMITH. Urinal for Invalids.

No. 231,487. Patented Aug. 24, 1880.

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JANE HENRY AND JAMES B. SMITH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

URINAL FOR INVALIDS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 231,487, dated August24, 1880, Application filed March 17, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it mayconcern Be it known that we, Mrs. JANE HENRY and JAMES B. SMITH,citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Urinals for Invalids; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable oth ers skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

This invention relates to an improved device to be employed by personsafflicted with incontinence of urine; and it has for its object toprovide a means of retaining the urine as it is discharged until it maybe transferred to a suitable "essel or finally discharged. This objectwe attain by the device shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Theletter A indicates a sack or bag, con structed of water-proof materialand of any convenient shape, in the present instance being in the formof an oblong flat bag. The said sack or bag has a neck, B, open at itsupper end, and is provided at its lower end with a discharge-opening, C.

At the narrow portion of the neck B is secured at short tubular sectionor annulus, E, which serves to keep the neck distended at such point,and from such annulus or extension extends into the sack a shortflexible tube, F, which is preferably contracted toward its lower end. a

The discharge-openingO is provided with a short nipple, G,screw-threaded externally, which serves to keep said opening distended,and also as ameans for securinga short tube, H, internallyscrew-threaded and provided with a flexible tube, I.

The neck B is provided with loops K, of flexible or other material,through which is passed a strap, L, by means of which the device may besecured to the body of the patient. In using the device the neck of thesame is passed over the penis of the male, or secured against theexternal parts of the vagina'in the female, and held in position bymeans of the strap secured around the body in any convenient manner.The'urine as it is discharged passes through the nipple G and into thesack or bag A, and its return or escape through said tube is preventedby the flexible nature of the tube, the pressure of the urine inescaping causing the tube to collapse and seal the same.

When the device is to be used during the night, while the patient is inbed, the flexible tube I is secured to the discharge end and extendedfrom under the bed-clothing to a urinal or other collecting-vessel.During the day, when the patient is in an erect position, the flexibletube is removed, and a screw-cap, M, is substituted therefor, whichretains the urine until it is convenient to discharge it.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, anddesire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In a urinal for invalids, the sack A, provided with the screw-sleeve nutor nipple G, to adapt it to connect with the bent tube H or the cap M atwill, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

MRS. JANE HENRY. JAMES E. SMITH.

Witnesses W. D. ALEXANDER, P. H. HENRY.

